Teach Me to Kill

by Stephen Sawicki

Book Overview

Teach Me to Kill, Stephen Sawicki, 1991 There are no apples for Pamela Wojas Smart, a popular "with it" high school teacher. Her curriculum included lurid sex and premeditated murder. This riveting... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380766493
• ISBN13: 9780380766499
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Not So Smart

True crime aficianados will remember the case of Pamela Smart. Smart was 22 years old, college educated, and professionally employed when she began a sexual relationship with a naive 16 year old student at the school where she worked. She then proceded, for reasons that are not entirely clear to the author, to manipulate the student, Billy Flynn, along with his friends to murder her husband, threatening that if he did not do so, she would be unable to continue seeing him. The crime was so ill conceived - the commissioning of 4 teenage high school boys, one of whom is porking the commissioner, apparently with some strange expectation that no one would learn about the affair or the identities of the killers - as to be ridiculous. The book follows typical true crime format concluding with the arrests and trial. In TEACH ME TO KILL, Stephen Sawicki has written an excellent book. Sawicki's writing and research are excellent. The style is reportorial. There is no filler, no repetition, and the only trial or police investigation material is interesting and necessary. There is considerable background information on the principal players and some excellent scene setting in the detailed description of the poor Seabrook, NH, neighborhood where the boys lived. The book moves rapidly and is an easy and very enjoyable read. And the cover is hot. I highly recommend TEACH ME TO KILL to lovers of the genre.

Pamela Smart,you make me sick!

This woman is an evil,selfish, cunning nasty piece of work. You should be able to feel safe in the knowledge that your child is working on a project with school teacher. NOT THIS ONE!Not only does this woman in her twenties seduce a boy of sixteen but she plays mind games with him.She tells him that her husband beats her and that she must have him out of her life and she talks her young pupil/lover into killing him with a couple of his friends. This young boy (Billy),is so in love with his 'older woman'that he doesn't want to lose her and in desperation,he shoots Pamelas husband. She never plays the grieving widow and in fact seems to revel in the limelight that comes her way.She is so sure of herself that she can't help her runaway mouth which is eventually her downfall. I hope she gets what she deserves in jail,I never want to see her freed from prison. I feel so much for the victim,Greg and his family who have to live their lives knowing that their daughter in law is responsible for the death of their son. Pamela Smart makes me sick!